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Author:

Van Kley, Dale K., 1941- author.

Title:

Reform Catholicism and the international suppression of the Jesuits in enlightenment Europe / Dale K. Van Kley.

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 370 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Catholic Church--Europe--History--16th century.
Catholic Church--Europe--History--17th century.
Catholic Church--Europe--History--18th century.
Jesuits--Europe--16th century.
Jesuits--Europe--17th century.
Jesuits--Europe--18th century.
Catholic Church.
Jesuits.
Europe--Church history--16th century.
Europe--Church history--17th century.
Europe--Church history--18th century.
Europe--Intellectual life--16th century.
Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.
Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
Enlightenment--Europe.
Enlightenment.
Intellectual life.
Europe.
1500-1799
Church history.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Afterword as fast-forward. The end of the Jesuits and the polarization of Catholic Europe, 1773-1791. -- One. From the Catholic Enlightenment to Reform Catholicism, 1540-1759 -- Two. The genesis and trajectory of anti-Jesuitism, 1554-1761. -- Part II. The expulsions and suppressions of the Jesuits: -- Three. The case of France, 1758-1764 -- Four. Portugal and Spain, 1754-1767 -- Five. Naples, Parma, and the Bourbon Family Pact, 1767-1773. -- Part III. Reform Catholicism and the ultramontanist international: -- Six. The end of the Jesuits and the polarization of Catholic Europe, 1773-1791. -- Afterword as fast-forward.

Summary:

An investigation into the role of Reform Catholicism in the international suppression of the Jesuits in 1773. The Jesuits devoted themselves to preaching the word of God, administering the sacraments, and spreading the faith by missions in both Europe and newly discovered lands abroad. But, in 1773, under intense pressure from the monarchs of Europe, the papacy suppressed the Society of Jesus, an act that reverberated from Europe to the Americas and Southeast Asia. In this scholarly history, Dale Van Kley argues that Reform Catholicism, not a secular Enlightenment, provided the justification for Catholic kings to suppress a society instituted by the papacy. Spanning the years from the mid-sixteenth century to the onset of the French Revolution, and the Jesuit presence from China to Brazil, this is the only single volume in English to make coherent sense of the series of expulsions that add up to what was arguably the most important religious event in Europe of the time, resulting in the secularization of tens of thousands of Jesuits.

ISBN:

0300228465
9780300228465

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1020965242

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)